Some Famous Brothers
of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
- Activists:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil rights activist
- Julius L. Chambers - NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Lester Granger - National Urban League
- Frederick Douglass - Anti-slavery activist
- W.E.B. DuBois - Writer, historian, civil rights activist
- Adam Clayton Powell, jr. - Civil Rights Activist
- Thurgood Marshall - Civil rights activist, supreme court justice
- Paul Robeson - Activist, scholar, singer, football player
- Dick Gregory - Activist
- William Gray - United Negro College Fund, businessman
- Franklin Williams - Phelps-Stokes Fund
- Education/Scholarship
- Henry Ponder - Educator, General President of Alpha
- James Check - Howard University
- Dr. Ronald J. Temple - Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
- John Hope Franklin - Historian
- E. Franklin Frazier - Sociologist
- Dennis Kimbro - Author
- Fredrick Patterson - Founder, UNCF
- Cornell West - Author
- Military
- Roscoe Cartwright - General, AUS
- Samuel Gravely - Admiral, USN
- Edward Honor - Major General, AUS
- Brig. Gen. Fred A. Gorden
- Adm. Samuel Gravely
- Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker
- Maj. Gen. Edward Honor
- Maj. Gen. James McCall
- Com. Winston Scott
- Science/Medicine
- Dr. Lessall D. Leffall - President American College of Surgeons
- James Comer - Psychologist
- Garrett Morgan - Inventor, Traffic Signal
- Louis Sullivan - Secretary of Health and Education
- Government/Politics:
- Ronald Brown - Former Secretary of Commerce
- David Dinkins - Former mayor of New York
- Willie Brown - Mayor of San Francisco
- Ernest Finney - South Carolina Supreme Court Justice
- Earnest "Dutch" Morial - 1st Black Mayor of New Orleans
- Marc Morial - Present Mayor of New Orleans
- Maynard Jackson - Former Mayor of Atlanta
- Andrew Young - Former mayor of Atlanta
- Marion Barry - Mayor of Washington, D.C.
- Chaka Fattah - Pennsylvania Congressman
- Business:
- Johnson H. Johnson - Entrepreneur
- Doug Bush - Entrepreneur
- Entertainment:
- Duke Ellington - Jazz musician
- Quincy Jones - Producer, Musician
- Tony Brown - Journalist/Producer
- Countee Cullen - Poet
- Donny Hathaway - Musician
- Eugene Jackson - National Black Network
- Chuck Stone - Philadelphia Daily News
- Keenan Ivory Wayans - Comedian, producer
- Daryl Bell - Actor
- Lionel Richie - Singer
- Stuart Scott - Sportscenter Anchorman
- Sports:
- Jackie Robinson - First Black Man in Major League Baseball
- Jesse Owens - Olympic gold medalist
- Eddie Robinson - Winningest coach in college football history
- Lenny Wilkens - Winningest coach in NBA history
- Rosie Greer - NFL Player
- Art Shell - NFL Coach
- Charles Haley - NFL Player
- Todd Day - NBA Player
- John "Hot Rod" Williams - NBA Player
- Wes Chandler - San Diego Chargers
- Fritz Pollard (First Black Head Coach in NFL history)
- Gene Upshaw - President of NFL Players Association
- Reggie Williams - Cincinatti Bengals
- Quinn Buckner - Former NBA Player and Coach
- Wes Unseld - Former NBA Coach